After inserting a tiny black and white photo into one side of the tiny golden locket, and a slip of paper with my loving words into the other, I was ready to forward the message to my sister J.

But where was the ‘send’ button? This email system was chronically poor.

I was so used to communicating electronically that I could not comprehend that there were only two possible means of passing the locket onto my sister. I would have to deliver it in person, or send it by post.